25 Cents - Elizabeth II Needle and Thread

Cook Islands has issued shaped and novelty coinage under licensing arrangements for decades, with the actual minting contracted out to foreign facilities rather than any domestic mint. This piece belongs to a broader run of thematic issues produced for the collectibles market — never intended for circulation and never appearing in it.

The KM#2776 reference places it firmly within a catalog sequence that by 2020 numbered in the thousands of Cook Islands types, a volume that reflects the islands' prolific use of their monetary authority as a licensing vehicle rather than any domestic economic need.